Category: Infection
UK Covid-19 death rate equivalent to four Airbus A320’s crashing every week
Britain is currently seeing around 650 people a week die of Covid-19. More...
UK: Vaccine breakthrough rate for Delta infections still increasing
The latest UK PHE Technical Briefing has just been published, and it shows that the vaccine breakthrough rate for Delta infections in the UK continues to increase by about 6% per month. More...
Delta vaccine breakthrough cases in Washington State quadruple in two weeks
This week’s update from Washington State showing vaccine breakthrough cases and which Sars-CoV-2 variant is causing them up to 18th August 2021. More...
Blood clotting may be the root cause of Long COVID syndrome
New evidence shows that patients with Long COVID syndrome continue to have higher measures of blood clotting, which may help explain their persistent symptoms, such as reduced physical fitness and fatigue. More...
France: Hundreds infected by Covid-19 in nursing homes in one week
There have been a large number of reports of Covid-19 infections in French nursing homes over the past week. More...
Preprint: generation and transmission of recombinant SARS-CoV-2 viruses
We present evidence for multiple independent origins of recombinant SARS-CoV-2 viruses sampled from late 2020 and early 2021 in the United Kingdom. More...
Preprint: Cryptic transmission of Delta AY.3 among fully vaccinated patients
Here we report cryptic transmission associated with high Delta variant viral load among vaccinated patients on an inpatient medical-surgical ward. More...
Spain: mink infected with Covid-19 at Galicia farm
The Spanish Ministry of Rural has notified this Friday to the Affairs Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) the existence of a coronavirus outbreak in an American mink farm located in the Coruña municipality of Abegondo . More...
UK: it’s an epidemic of the partially vaccinated
The latest UK ZOE Covid app data from 12th August 2021 shows that you are now more likely to catch Covid-19 if you are partially vaccinated than if you are unvaccinated. More...
New Zealand: full national lockdown after a single case of Delta variant detected
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced an alert-level 4 lockdown in New Zealand starting at 11.59pm tonight for seven days in Auckland and Coromandel, and three days elsewhere. More...